Hi,

I have a clarification question on the following statement in Section
8.1.1.6 of RFC3261 regarding when a proxy should send a 483 and whether
the number of hops includes the destination hop.

"The Max-Forwards header field serves to limit the number of hops a
request can transit on the way to its destination.  It consists of an
integer that is decremented by one at each hop.  If the Max-Forwards
value reaches 0 before the request reaches its destination, it will be
rejected with a 483(Too Many Hops) error response."


Consider the following flow: (mf=max-forwards)


UA-A --- INVITE (mf=2) ---> Proxy-A ---- INVITE (mf=1) ---> Proxy-B ----
INVITE (mf=0) ---> UA-B


In the flow above, should Proxy-B forward the INVITE with max-forwards=0
to UA-B or should it reject the request with 483?

Thanks for your help in advance,
YoungSun

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